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Supreme Court dismisses Alabama's bid to execute inmate with borderline intellectual disability
The court's action leaves in place lower court rulings in favor of Joseph Clifton Smith, 55, who has been on death row roughly half his life after his conviction for beating a man to death in 1997.
What happened
According to PBS News’s source item, Supreme Court dismisses Alabama’s bid to execute inmate with borderline intellectual disability, The court’s action leaves in place lower court rulings in favor of Joseph Clifton Smith, 55, who has been on death row roughly half his life after his conviction for beating a man to death in 1997.
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- Supreme Court dismisses Alabama's bid to execute inmate with borderline intellectual disabilityPBS News - 2026-05-21T17:03:27+00:00
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